Online Webinar  – Recorded July 16, 2020
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The need for business cases is often taken for granted. Unfortunately, business cases are often taken for granted as well. In many instances, they are designed to reach pre-ordained conclusions, or justify a preferred course of action.

It doesn’t need to be this way, and good, well-crafted business cases can be important decision tools to guide and support strategic decision making.

In this presentation Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management dives in to what makes an exceptional business case, and how to build one.

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Building Business Cases That Matter

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Live Webinar March 25th, 2021 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Shift left. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Continuous deployment. DevOps. What is all this stuff and what does it mean for you as the tester?

In this keynote, Rex Black will explain these concepts and their test implications. He will then describe the emerging role of the SDET (Software Development Engineering in Test, also called SET) and what SDETs do.

Yes, being an SDET is about test automation, but it’s about a lot more than that, and Rex will give you some examples of things you can expect to do as an SDET in a shift left world over the coming decade.

Don’t worry. Life as a tester in the SDET reality is gonna be fun and exciting, and Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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Shift Left & Friends: What They Mean For Testers In The Coming Decade

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Live Webinar February 25th, 2021 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

How can we trust people we don’t know to perform transactions correctly, completely and accurately on the Internet?

The answer to that, at least for now, is the Blockchain.

The Blockchain is more than simply the mechanism by which Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies function.

Blockchain has worked its way into many organizations, primarily financial, but also into supply chains and any other form of business that conducts transactions.

So what does that have to do with the business analyst other than finding requirements for Blockchain? Blockchain technology has amazing potential: it could create entirely new foundations for global financial, economic and social systems.

In this webinar Steven discusses the current usages of Blockchain and its potentialities. It also addresses how the business analyst can fit in and take advantage of the Blockchain.

Topics:

• the Blockchain is more than Bitcoin
• using Blockchain technology as a transaction ledger
• current uses of Blockchain technology
• the business analyst’s application of Blockchain technology
• the future of Blockchain technology and how the business analyst fits in

Presenter: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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The Business Analyst & Blockchain Technology

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Live Webinar February 8th, 2020 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

TMMi has become the leading model for test process improvement, but how are organizations adopting TMMi and what issues are they addressing?

Join Rex Black as he welcomes guest presenter, Martin Adcock, (LinkedIn profile) Managing Director of Experimentus who has been helping organizations to deliver TMMi based solutions for over 14 years, as he explores how organizations have adopted TMMi and are using it to improve their test process and give them a competitive edge.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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Exploring The Different Ways Organizations Are Adopting TMMi

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Live Webinar January 28th, 2021 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

• You are being watched!
• You are being tracked!
• You are being followed!

No, you haven’t fallen into a spy novel or a scene from 1984.

This is behavioral analytics. Analyzing actions taken online to determine behavioral anomalies for purposes of identifying products that could be of interest to you, general trends in usage, and potential security threats.

While you as a business analyst may not be dealing with behavioral analytics now, it clearly is one of the higher growth areas for both business and technology.

How will behavioral analytics affect your organization and, more specifically your job in the future?

In this webinar Steve Blais describes what behavioral analytics is, how it is currently used, what is potential is, and how you can get in on the ground floor and grow with the technology.

Topics:

• The analytics of behavior
• Define the information that describes the behavior
• Built-in challenges to behavioral analytics: privacy and intrusion
• How a business analyst fits in to the behavioral analytics world
• The future of behavioral analytics and the business analyst

Presenter: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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The Business Analyst & Behavioural Analytics

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Live Webinar September 24th, 2020 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

A central business object repository is not hard to set up; and it delivers substantial value by creating and maintaining operational maturity, which is a prerequisite for an organization to be agile.

• every organization has many perspectives,
• the age-old problem of silos of information persists in the era of big data,
• 2020 is THE year in which change management will be tested,
• performance improvement must be centered on value streams.

The best way to achieve Process Maturity through a comprehensive process methodology is by using a shared business object repository.

In this way business analysts, enterprise architects, human resource managers, and resource managers can share information through a big data repository to optimize an organization and help members of the C suite perform their management role.

When attending this webinar, you will: 

• understand how a business object repository works and delivers value
• learn how easy it is to start small and evolve the environment to maturity level V just by using the right tools

Presenter:

Lisa Cates, (LinkedIn profile) Head of Service Delivery BS in Math & Masters in Education, Lisa has led business transformation teams in education, federal government, retail, and healthcare projects for many years.

Rob Allen (LinkedIn profile) is a software consultant for Nineteen Feet. Focusing on web development, training, and consultancy, Rob has been involved in software architecture and development for a number of years now and writes code in PHP, Swift, and other interesting languages. He contributes to open source projects such as Slim Framework and is the author of Zend Framework in Action. Rob holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Birmingham in the UK.

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How BAs Can Achieve Business Maturity:
The Prerequisite For Agile Projects

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